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Top Stories Wikipedia Current Events Polish parliamentary election - unofficial results Hurricane Rita makes landfall • Renault driver Fernando Alonso The core of becomes the youngest ever According to the first exit polls Hurricane Rita Formula One champion when published by TNS OBOP and PBS made landfall just finishing 3rd behind McLaren for TVP1 Polish public television west of the rivals Juan Pablo Montoya and station, the Law and Justice (PiS) Texas-Louisiana Kimi Räikkönen in the 2005 party has won today's border as a Brazilian Grand Prix parliamentary election in Poland category 3 storm Swiss voters approve a with a 27,6% result. Runners up at 3 AM Saturday with sustained • referendum by 56% to 44% to were Citizens Platform (PO) with winds near 120 mph. The center allow citizens from the 10 newest 24,1% and Alliance of the of the eye crossed the coast in European Union member Democratic Left (SLD) with 11,3%. east Texas, with the eyewall countries to travel and work in extending into Louisiana. Switzerland. Quotas will be According to a GfK Polonia poll for applied until 2011 on the number TVN, TVN24 and the India subsidizes girls' of people allowed to settle. Rzeczpospolita newspaper, PiS has education to offset gender 28,3% votes, PO 26,5% and SLD imbalance •At least four Shia Muslims, 11%. Leage of Polish Families Free and reduced believed to be members of the (LPR), Self-Defense of the Polish costs for the Mehdi Army are killed by US Republic (Samoobrona) and Polish education of girls soldiers in a gunfight following a Peasant Party (PSL) also got the announced in US raid into Sadr City, eastern necessary 5% votes for a place in India. Baghdad. the new parliament. •Nine people die following a bomb Featured story attack on a police station in Hilla. PO and PiS, both of which will form the future government, will have St. Anthony Foundation •Over 100,000 people attend Anti 304 places in the new Sejm, which provides hope Iraq War rally held in Washington is 3 less than is required for On the corner D.C. making changes to the Polish of Golden Gate constitution, which both parties Ave. and Jones •The Israeli Defense Force support. St. in the launches Operation First Rain, a Tenderloin, San series of air strikes on militant Switzerland citizens vote Yes Francisco, right targets in the Gaza Strip, to freedom of circulation to next to the Civic Center you can including a Hamas weapons new EU states see a throng of low-income and factory. The operation's goal is to homeless people lining up outside stop shelling of southern Israeli The Swiss people have voted yes of St. Anthony’s Dining Room hall towns and villages by Palestinian to the freedom of circulation to the which opens up its doors militants. At least 200 militants new EU states. Overall 55.95% (1 everyday at 11:30 a.m have been arrested in overnight IDF raids in the West Bank. The 457 355) voted yes and 44.05% (1 147 236) voted no. The turnout Wikipedia Current Events Palestinians report 20 people have been injured. was 53.64%. All the cantons apart • Conflict in Afghanistan: 5 US from Ticino, Appenzell soldiers die when a Chinook •Eurobasket 2005: Greece beats Innerrhoden, Obwalden, helicopter crashes in Zabul, Germany 78 to 62 and wins for Nidwalden, Glarus, Schwyz and Uri southern Afghanistan. the second time in its history the majority of those voted yes, while Eurobasket the others voted no.

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Results: they wish to watch and it will alert Schengen/Dublin will also become Yes 55.95% 1,457,355 them when the show starts. invalided. No 44.05% 1,147,236 In South Korea many mobile Opponents said it might cause UK mobile provider begins TV- phone companies already offer wage-dumping, potentially leading on-phone trial television on mobile phones using to lower wages, and make the a system called digital mobile unemployment rate higher, which Mobile phone provider O2 in broadcast. In the US a recent at the moment is at 3.6% (which partnership with Nokia and Arqiva survey by InStat, found few is high by Swiss standards). began a trial of a new service that Americans are interested in mobile allows customers to watch TV. Canadian company Telus also Out of the big 4 main parties, the broadcast TV on their mobile recently began to offer mobile TV centre-left Social Democrats, the phone. The trial began on services. liberal-right Free Democrats and Thursday in Oxford. Four hundred the centre-right Christian O2 customers have been selected "By establishing relationships Democrats have said yes to the to participate. According to O2 the through activities such as this, we proposals. However, the populist- trial represents a balanced hope that potential challenges will right Swiss People's Party have selection of the population. be minimized and mobile TV said no to the proposal. Many becomes a commercial reality businesses are for a yes vote. Participants have been supplied sooner than is currently possible," with Nokia 7710 smartphones, said Dave Williams, O2's chief Results are now available: that can receive 16 channels. The technical officer "Switzerland citizens vote Yes to trial service currently carries BBC freedom of circulation to new EU ONE, BBC TWO, BBC News 24, ITV Switzerland citizens vote on states". Wikinews, September 25, 1, ITV 2, Channel 4 and 5, extending freedom rights from 2005 Eurosport, Cartoon Network, CNN, 15 to 25 European countries Discovery Channel, MTV, ShortsTV, Sky News, Sky Sports News and Sky Travel. Hasegawa retains TV shows are transmitted using a title technology called Digital Video Broadcasting for Handhelds (DVB- Hozumi Hasegawa (長谷川 積), H). It requires a special receiver to record 18 Wins - 2 Losses, fought be connected to the mobile phone. Gerardo Martinez, 27 Wins - 5 Losses - 2 Draws, for the WBC Nokia has said they plan to build Switzerland is voting today on Bantamweight Title Sunday night support for the DVB-H technology their quarterly federal referenda, in , Japan. Hasegawa into future Nokia phones. this referendum is over on won by TKO in the 7th round, whether the rights on the freedom retaining his title. Many other UK providers have of circulation of people such be offered mobile TV on cellphones, extended from the former fifteen Hasegawa, 26, from , was however this is the first to offer member states to the current defending the title he gained regular full length TV shows. Most twenty-five members of the against Thai fighter Veeraphol other providers use the 3G video- European Union. streaming technology. "3G is Sahaprom at the perfect for two-minute video clips. in April of this year. Originally he was scheduled to fight Diego But, if you're watching a 90- Supporters say that if people vote Morales, who dropped out due to minute football game, we think no, the rest of the bilateral injury and was replaced by DVB-H is the most suitable," said accords could become invalid by Martinez, 30, from Mexico City. Dave Williams, O2's chief technical the European Union, such as officer freedom of movement and Hasegawa appeared to control the freedom of trade. They say that fight from early on, fighting at a Customers can use an onscreen the recent vote on programme to select programmes measured pace and landing

If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit www.wikinews.org Monday, September 26, 2005 Wikinews Page 3 several punches in the early third lowest median incomes, still qualify to file for Chapter 7," rounds. Martinez visually tired by respectively. Democrats also feel which means liquidation of assets the fifth round, though he came that it is unfair to require in exchange for cancelation of back with some strength in the repayment by bankrupted debt. sixth. Early in the seventh round, Hurricane Katrina victims while however, Martinez suffered a citizens in other states with similar Church of Scientology does not knockdown, followed by a stunning incomes would pay nothing. see humor in website left, after which he struggled to dedicated to Tom Cruise gain control. After fierce close- F. James Sensenbrenner, quarters fighting, he staggered Republican from Wisconsin and The Church of Scientology has backwards and fell, hand to his left chairman of the House Judiciary threatened legal action in order to temple. The official called the Committee, has denied a hearing take over ownership of the domain match at 2:18. on creating an exception in the name of a web site which links to law for the purposes of Katrina the odd behaviour of one of the Today was Hasegawa's third relief. He noted that "If someone world's most famous wedding anniversary. in Katrina is down and out, and scientologists, Tom Cruise. has no possibility of being able to Controversy over effects of repay 40 percent or more of their ScienTOMogy.info has apparently new bankruptcy law on victims debts, then the new bankruptcy received a fax and at least 6 of Katrina law doesn't apply." emails in the span of 2 days from Scientology lawyer Ava Paquette Hurricane Katrina has rekindled The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention of Moxon & Kobrin threatening a debate over the controversial and Consumer Protection Act of lawsuit of up to $100,000 if the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and 2005 has been heavily criticized by domain name ownership is not Consumer Protection Act of 2005, consumer rights' organizations. transferred. This type of letter is in the U.S. House of The Consumer Federation of often called a cease and desist Represenatives. Congressional America argues that "[the] new letter. Democrats feel that among the requirements, coupled with strict hundreds of thousands of victims deadlines for production upon the The owners of scienTOMogy.info of Katrina, many of whom have penalty of an automatic dismissal have posted the complaints and lost all all their possessions and are difficult for the most organized their replies, saying that the site are coping with relocation, those person to meet, never mind simply expresses opinion, does not that declare bankruptcy should be someone who has had his or her make any claims, and clearly granted the protections of the home destroyed by Katrina." states that it has no connection to previous law. 32 Democrats have the Church of Scientology. "The sponsored a proposal that would Opponents of the bill also argued site was put up as a single source delay implementing certain parts that it makes the government "a to view all the recent hype Tom of the law to "insure that we do bill collector for private has made about the church - it not compound a natural disaster companies", and could lead to does nothing but show Tom, so we with a man made financial criminal prosecutions over matters are at a loss as to why the church disaster." best left in civil courts, and is acting so rashly." theoretically even to life The new bankruptcy law affects imprisonment under federal three- Three detained for Thai marine anyone whose income (as of the strikes laws. Such opponents view deaths six months before filing) was over the bulk of the act either as the state median income. "bought and paid for" by the Thai Defense Minister, Thammarak Democratic legislators point out Credit Card Industry, who spent Isarangkura na Ayudhya, that many hurricane victims who millions lobbying in support of the announced the arrest of three manage to find work will be bill, or else as an unfortuinate persons suspected of involvement suffering from wage reductions, compromise between the lobiest in the deaths of two marines in making them unable to effectively for banks and bankruptcy lawyers, Thailand's troubled southern deal with their previous debts. such as the American Bankruptcy region. Among U.S. states, Louisana and Institute (ABI). Nathalie Martin, of Mississippi have the fourth and ABI, said that "Many people will The two marines were detained

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